• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 8, Issue 1, 14 (2010)
Fenfen Dai, Yonghao Xu, and Xianfeng Chen
Author Affiliations
  • Department of Physics, the State Key Laboratory on Fiber Optic Local Area Communication Networks and Advanced Optical Communication Systems, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL20100801.0014 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Fenfen Dai, Yonghao Xu, Xianfeng Chen. Tunable and low bending loss of liquid-core fiber[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(1): 14 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The liquid-core fiber with relatively high refractive index difference between the core and cladding is proven to be bending insensitive. The single mode condition and bending loss of the fiber with a mixture of toluene and chloroform as its core material are studied. The results show that the bending loss of this fiber is not only much smaller than the conventional silica single mode fiber but also can be tuned by the temperature and liquid mixture ratio. This kind of fiber may find its potential applications in all-optical network.